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Lankhorst Ropes has supplied high-capacity, ultra-heavy lift slings to Allseas’ Pioneering Spirit for the transportation and lowering of a 7300t jacket for a converter platform for the German offshore project BorWin 5. The Lankhorst Gama 98 slings held the jacket in position above the stern of the Pioneering Spirit for the 2-day journey to the […]

Canal lock gates play a pivotal role in allowing boats to go up and down hills by adjusting the water level. When the gate at lock 27 on the Oxford Canal in Little Bourton, UK,  was found to be in need of urgent repair works, it was critical that the matter was sorted as soon […]

Ainscough Crane Hire’s Bristol, UK depot recently supported Nuclear Restoration Services (NRS) with a l lift operation that will see redundant laundry machines from the Oldbury nuclear site safely repurposed and recycled. NRS is responsible for the safe decommissioning of the UK’s first-generation nuclear and research sites. For this project, NRS appointed Ainscough to assist […]